Padma Lakshmi is continuously formulating brand-new jobs, so it’s not a surprise that she’s invested the previous week acquiring distinguished honors.
The food professional is now the happy owner of 3 Critics Choice Real TELEVISION Awards– among which acknowledged her hosting responsibilities on Top Chef and Hulu’s Taste the Nation— in addition to a James Beard Foundation Award.
Padma was on hand to accept her Critics Choice prizes, and as she informed E! News in a special interview on June 15, she was really amazed by her response. “I went up on stage and I burst out crying,” she remembered. “I just burst out into tears on stage because it was surreal and it was just overwhelming. And, obviously, I really wanted to win but I didn’t know if I would.”
That, and she was tired. “I was coming from filming in the middle of the ocean down in the Gulf of Mexico,” Padma stated. “And so I took a plane, came home, changed my bags, got new clothes and left the next morning for Chicago and it was all a blur.”
